Communications in Morocco
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.391 million (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
116,645 (1998)
Telephone system:
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 27, FM 25, shortwave 6 (1998)
Radios:
6.64 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 35 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
3.1 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
27 (1999)
Country code (Top level domain): MA
domestic:
good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and microwave radio relay links; Internet available but expensive; principal switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs microwave radio relay
international:
7 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria; participant in Medarabtel; fiber-optic cable link from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia